July 15: Businesswoman Maggie Walker, the first A.A. woman to charter, and become president of a bank, was born, 1867
June 30: NPR highlighted the story of Arturo Schomburg, “One Of The Fathers Of Black History Was Afro-Puerto Rican,” 2017
June 20: George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic were Grammy, Salute To Music Legends, award recipients, 2019
June 14: The famous 125th St. (at Adam Clayton Powell Blvd.) in Harlem, NY was co-named Dr. Yosef ben-Jochannan Way, 2019
June 13: Thurgood Marshall was appointed as the first African American Supreme Court Justice, 1967
June 12: Civil Rights worker Medgar Evers was shot to death in his driveway in Jackson, Mississippi, 1963
May 30: The Ida B. Wells-Barnett House was listed as a National Historic Landmark, 1974
April 20: Rosa Parks was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, which is the highest award for a US citizen, 1999
April 8: The most respected bridge builder of the 19th century, Horace King, was born in South Carolina, 1807